UMMAA at the SAAs

Yuchao Zhao presents a paper at the 2018 SAAs as part of a symposium on human history at high altitudes. Co-chair and UMMAA curator Brian Stewart looks on (at right). Photo by Martin Menz.

The University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropological Archaeology made a fantastic showing at the Society for American Archaeology meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, DC, April 11-15. Twenty of our current students and faculty co-authored papers or posters.

Highlights from the conference include the symposium titled “The Human Odyssey in Earth’s High Mountains and Plateaus.” Curator Brian Stewart co-chaired the symposium, which included a paper by graduate student Yuchao Zhao and Brian Stewart. Research affiliate Lisa Young co-chaired another symposium, “Learning from Homol’ovi: Papers in Honor of E. Charles Adams and Richard C. Lange.” Curator John O’Shea was a discussant on a third symposium, “Investigations into Submerged Prehistory: Methodological Approaches, Recent Endeavors, and New Results,” which included a presentation by Ashley Lemke, recent U-M graduate and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas-Arlington.